They tried to relocate the Armenians from Eastern provinces to the Syrian province.

A separate East Syrian metropolitan province was created for Adarbaigan in the second half of the 13th century, possibly centred on Tabriz.

Nicolaus however prevented his design from taking full effect, and retained a part of the Syrian provinces under the allegiance of Egypt.

In 44 BC he became praetor peregrinus with the promise of the Syrian province for the ensuing year.

The empty central Anatolian basin and steppe zone in the Syrian provinces were instances where government agencies parcelled out smallholdings of land to refugees.

The Ottoman Government then decided in May 1915 to remove the insurgent Armenian minority from the war zone to the Syrian province of the Empire.

As the world has looked away, Lebanon has increasingly become a Syrian province.

The Hauran rebellion was a violent Druze uprising against Ottoman authority in the Syrian province, which erupted in 1909.

After this incident Hiyat sent a letter to Ali asking for permission to take revenge on the Syrian province of Kirkisiya.

Two lists in Arabic of East Syrian metropolitan provinces and their constituent dioceses during the ʿAbbasid period have survived.